Politics
And now for our next trick, we’ll grant corporations the right to vote and habeas corpus
This is bad. This is really, really bad.
Corporations are people now, and money is speech. Dear god.
As Doug Kendall observes:
Citizens United blows away any notion that conservative judges, who profess to be “originalists” and “umpires,” are in fact faithful to our Constitution’s text and history or bound by reasoned precedent.
But of [...]
Ten million people could march on Washington dressed as Che Guevara, and the Democrats would interpret it to mean that Americans want the party to move right
A little over a year ago, Americans elected Barack Obama by a landslide. They elected him because they wanted an end to Republican government. They elected him because they wanted to see a genuinely progressive agenda enacted. True, they had absolutely no reason to expect that Obama would do those things, [...]
Why right-wing populism works
(This started out as a paragraph in the working session thing I’m knocking together, but it got so big that I decided it needed its own post.)
Why does right-wing populism work? Short answer: because left-wing populism is dead.
Or, to put it another way, and more accurately: Republican cultural populism [...]
Martha Coakley for President
Quixote started it (I think).
Pick it up. Run with it. Go!
On your blog, in your comments, everywhere. That’s how memes start. Coakley’s got the courage and the convictions. She’s raising her head above the parapet, right now, when it matters. Just as she did [...]
Here we go again with the classism
Revenge of the Ghetto Hockey Mom is how Henry Rollins describes the Palin-Letterman contretemps. Granted, Rollins is a particularly odious misogynist who is too dumb to understand that threats to hate-fuck conservative women are perhaps not the most persuasive way to spread the liberal message. Nevertheless, his argument — if you can call [...]
National Fourth Amendment Defense Day
I had to disappear for a few days to do some reclusive things, but I’m back in time for the holiday. That’s today, National Fourth Amendment Defense Day. I don’t think there will be any half-price sales at Bed Bath & Beyond to mark the occasion, but you can contribute to the festivities [...]
A comment that tells you everything you need to know about the Obamabots
From a commenter at Tom Watson’s blog:
Oh well who cares if no majority Caucasian country in the history of the western world has ever nominated a black man before. It’s no biggie, some dude’s wife is much more monumental.
Just in case you’re wondering why women like me are ready to fight tooth and nail to [...]
Axelrod strikes again
The Astroturf King is getting lazy. I guess he spent so much money buying up the netroots for Obama that now he’s down to outsourcing canned scripts to Mumbai.
This comment is showing up in moderation queues throughout the Hillary-supporting blogosphere:
When I watched her speech this morning, I felt something genuine in her [...]
Fuck off, Obama
From Riverdaughter:
The Obama camp just issued the following statement on Hillary Clinton’s endorsement.
“Obviously, I am thrilled and honored to have Senator Clinton’s support. But more than that, I honor her today for the valiant and historic campaign she has run. She shattered barriers on behalf of my daughters and women everywhere, who now know that [...]
The Hube Redux
There is no limit to the man’s hypocrisy. Butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth.
This is Obama responding to a reporter’s question about the alleged Michelle tape:
“We have seen this before. There is dirt and lies that are circulated in emails and they pump them out long enough until finally you, a mainstream reporter, [...]
